environment variable name converted to upper case

Shankar Unni shankarunni@netscape.net
Mon Aug 23 22:07:00 GMT 2004


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> To repeat, translating environment variables to uppercase is something
> that *cygwin* does.  Check out environ.cc for more information.

Could the uppercasing be limited to certain environment variables? 
Particularly, only PATH, since that's common to both NT and Posix 
shells, but that NT allows in any case while Posix shells expect in 
uppercase?


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